Ted Cruz has his own Rev. Wright  his dad!

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Nov 4, 2013 at 5:15 PMNov 4, 2013 at 9:21 PM

In terms of political impact, not much ever came of the tireless efforts by right-wingers to link Barack Obama to the excessive rhetoric of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The anti-Wright campaign did nothing to prevent Obama from winning the presidency twice.

But Sen. Ted Cruz, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, might not find it so easy to dissociate himself from his own problematic preacher — his father, the Rev. Rafael Cruz (above).

Obama more or less threw the Rev. Wright under the proverbial bus, and the whole subject soon faded to relative ...

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In terms of political impact, not much ever came of the tireless efforts by right-wingers to link Barack Obama to the excessive rhetoric of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The anti-Wright campaign did nothing to prevent Obama from winning the presidency twice.

But Sen. Ted Cruz, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, might not find it so easy to dissociate himself from his own problematic preacher — his father, the Rev. Rafael Cruz (above).

Obama more or less threw the Rev. Wright under the proverbial bus, and the whole subject soon faded to relative ...